Rhode Island's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
Rhode Island's violent crime rate fell 29.7% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 52.6%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 219.9 to 154.6 per 100,000 (-29.7%). Property crime moved from 2193.1 to 1040.1 (-52.6%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 154.6 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 56.1% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 242.8 in 2015; the lowest was 154.6 in 2024. The latest value lies 0% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2021 to 2022: -13.0%. Across the full sequence, 3 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 7 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 22.7%, compared with -29.7% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 1,055,173 to 1,112,308 (+5.4%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
Rhode Island's property rate fell 18.6% (-288.6 per 100K) from 2019 to 2020 (1547.5 → 1258.9) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 5.3% from 2021 to 2022 (1237.6 → 1303.2).
Rhode Island's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 13.0% below in 2014 to 39.2% below in 2024 (-26.2 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,112,308 | 11,569 | 1040.1 | ↓ 8.0% | 1,720 | 154.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,095,962 | 12,390 | 1130.5 | ↓ 13.3% | 1,852 | 169 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,093,734 | 14,253 | 1303.2 | ↑ 5.3% | 1,904 | 174.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,095,610 | 13,559 | 1237.6 | ↓ 1.7% | 2,191 | 200 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,057,125 | 13,308 | 1258.9 | ↓ 18.6% | 2,427 | 229.6 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 1,059,361 | 16,394 | 1547.5 | ↓ 7.6% | 2,359 | 222.7 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 1,057,315 | 17,707 | 1674.7 | ↓ 5.2% | 2,329 | 220.3 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 1,059,639 | 18,714 | 1766.1 | ↓ 2.1% | 2,474 | 233.5 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 1,056,426 | 19,050 | 1803.2 | ↓ 5.8% | 2,529 | 239.4 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 1,056,298 | 20,210 | 1913.3 | ↓ 12.8% | 2,565 | 242.8 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 1,055,173 | 23,141 | 2193.1 | - | 2,320 | 219.9 |
More in Rhode Island: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Rhode Island (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.